Whitaker denies Zelenskyy's claims about US pressure to end war by early summer – media
U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker has denied claims by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that the United States has set a deadline for a peace deal on Ukraine, The Guardian reported.
"That June deadline was mentioned by president Zelenskyy. I don’t think that is anything that the United States has put there," he said, commenting on the findings of a report released ahead of the Munich Security Conference. "We want the fighting to end. We want both sides to come together and agree on a peace deal. We’d like it sooner rather than later, and… we just want… to see the suffering and the killing end in Ukraine," he said.
He added that setting deadlines in such circumstances is usually "very dangerous."
"I think we’ll just get this done as soon as it’s ready to get done. But ultimately, both sides, the Russians and the Ukrainians, are going to agree to any deal that’s hammered out," Whitaker said.
